#the spanish word for melon is sandía from arabic sindiyya. sandía is feminine | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gayarograce · 2 months ago

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Trying to learn a third language is all fun and games until it behaves differently from your second language (which is in the same family) and then it's utterly illogical and makes no sense.

#my post #exhibit a: spelling. spanish spelling is phonetic except for a few loanwords from english (hall. streaming. etc)#french spelling is probably phonetic but god can i not wrap my head around it. why is mangent pronounced the same as mange and manges?#exhibit b: gender. the gender of spanish nouns and french nouns are the same except when they arent #this appears to happen when the two words originate in different languages #the spanish word for melon is sandía from arabic sindiyya. sandía is feminine #the french word for melon is melon from latin somethingorotheridontememeber. melon is masculine #ok mini rant over

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